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avaya.comAvaya Virtual Services core network architecture but also offers enhanced flexibility and scalability to enable faster time-to-service in both data centerPlatform 9000 and very large campus core deployment scenarios. By enabling the virtualized compute infrastructure to be more mobile,An agile, streamlined, next-generation Ethernet Switching predictable, and available, the VSP 9000 fully delivers on the promise of centralizingsolution that delivers high-performance, high-capacity, and services, all without compromising the high availability, performance, and security that’shigh-availability for mission-critical data centers and very required in an enterprise environment.large campus core networks. Who has the VSP 9000The progressive evolution of the data center The Virtual Services Platform 9000 (VSPhas created a new networking environment, 9000) is a next-generation solution for been developed for?no longer simply an extension of the mission-critical data centers and campus The VSP 9000 has been specificallyenterprise campus; the data center has core networks, designed for the needs of developed for organizations that:developed into an autonomous network with large enterprises, and other such as multi-specific requirements and challenges. The tenant operators. The VSP 9000 rises to • Require scalable, high-density 10GbEVirtual Service Platform 9000 is the future- meet customer requirements for a future- today, and with continued growth willready and future-proof solution to deliver the proof, ultra-reliable network that easily need to position for future 40/100GbEsought-after combination of performance, and cost-effectively facilitates servicesreliability, and scalability. integration; it provides a less complex, • Are suffering from performance more agile virtual network infrastructure. limitations that result in poor applicationWith mission-critical application demands It simplifies the network and helps reduce responsivenessincreasing networks are required to ensure the cost of deploying new services; theuninterrupted business operations and a VSP 9000 enables the building of a • Demand best-in-class resiliencyquality user experience. Networks are called dynamic data center, helping to deliverupon to provide 24 x 7 access, help drive • Need to simplify network infrastructure 24x7 uninterrupted access to enterprisebusiness agility, accelerate time-to-service, operations in a highly virtualized applications and services.respond to the needs of new applications environmentand increase efficiency – all while IT The VSP 9000 delivers industry-leading • Are required to deliver virtual services forbudgets are being pressurized to deliver performance and scalability, with immediate multiple customers or user groups in amore and more efficiency. support for very high-density 1 and 10 cloud computing environment Gigabit Ethernet, in addition to being future-Individual business imperatives will continue ready for the emerging 40 and 100 Gigabit The VSP 9000 is for organizations that needto evolve and so too must the network; Ethernet standards. The fully scalable to stabilize IT costs and make maximize thecost-effectively adapting – forklift upgrades architecture helps ensure that network cost-effective use of their infrastructures.cause excessive disruption. The need is for capacity seamlessly scales in line with It is for companies that are virtualizinga platform that is flexible and versatile, performance requirements, without complex to increase the efficient and flexible useeasily accommodates both growth and or expensive re-engineering. of servers and appliances, and want tochange – a platform that delivers support for reduce maintenance costs. It is for thosenew applications ahead of the pack. Equally The VSP 9000 transforms the network who are running out of space in the dataimportant, that platform must be space and and, as a result, the business, providing center and are experiencing exponentialenergy efficient. The right communications an ultra-reliable foundation for services increases in power and cooling costs. It issolution is critical to your success; the such as communications-enabled ERP for organizations that want to simplify, save,Avaya Virtual Services Platform 9000 is that and CRM business processes, and unified and equip their networks for the future.solution. communications. It not only simplifies theFACT SHEET 1

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avaya.comThe key benefits of the designed for network-related functions such It’s carrier-class reliable... as efficient examination and manipulationVSP 9000 of packet headers. Avaya’s specialized high- The VSP 9000 builds upon Avaya’s solid foundation of always-on technology to performance NPU is known as the Route• A future-proof platform, offering an deliver maximum availability and continuity Switch Processor (RSP) and is an in-house unmatched architecture that scales up to of business operations with zero service development. It delivers fast-path protection 27 terabits per second interruption. The VSP 9000 Operating through its ability to support in-life firmware System is based on a carrier-class real-time• Delivers very high-density 1 and upgrades and provides 10Gbps line rate Linux operating system – and is market- 10 Gigabit Ethernet today, meeting switching and routing capabilities regardless proven by a huge, global carrier installed immediate performance and reliability of Standards evolution base where resiliency and scalability are needs The VSP 9000 leverages the RSP to deliver absolutely critical. Avaya Data Solutions• Is future-ready for a seamless evolution to faster implementations of new, performance- have a deep heritage of carrier-grade 40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet optimized functionalities, thus meeting the resiliency with our pioneering Switch needs of evolving applications without ASIC Clustering technology utilizing split multi-• An ultra-reliable platform, helping to re-spins and major hardware changes. link trunking and routed split multi-link ensure uninterrupted business operations trunking. The VSP 9000 takes this to the next level by providing network failover in• Helps to lower operating costs, by How the VSP 9000 less than 20 milliseconds. Instantaneous all- reducing management complexity and port re-routing means dramatically reduced delivers simplifying the architecture packet loss. Innovative “in-service control The VSP 9000 is designed to meet three plane integrity check” and “rapid failure critical network requirements, and the detection and recovery of data path” provideMeeting the need VSP 9000 has the power to meet these system-level health check and self-healingThe VSP 9000 is specifically designed to requirements today, and to also scale as capabilities. Hitless patching enables onesupport new and emerging requirements. the business evolves and grows – an agility software module to be patched without theVirtual application LANs enable applications that delivers best-in-class longevity and requirement to reload the complete systemhosted on virtual machines to move – on investment protection. image, thereby minimizing maintenancedemand – from one location to another down time. And redundant control processorin a completely seamless fashion, and It’s the foundation for the future.... and switch fabric modules help ensureapplication-specific deep-packet filters help The VSP 9000 supports an initial 240 port the VSP 9000 handles business criticalto ensure that only relevant traffic enters of 10G Ethernet in a compact 14RU information with utmost reliability.the virtual application LAN, delivering Chassis – allowing three chassis perapplication security. rack – and is based on a switching It’s your gateway to simplified and architecture that scales up to a 27Tbps, agile virtual network services…The networking industry is a perpetual or over 100Tbps in a quad Switch Cluster This platform enables future serviceswork-in-progress, an ‘unfinished configuration. Initial IPv4 forwarding rate is integration that can help consolidate andmasterpiece’, and the number of standards 1050Mpps per system. This architecture, simplify network deployments. Avaya hasand recommendations now runs into the combined with a lossless crossbar pioneered a faster, simpler way to providethousands. Equipment that is based on a fabric, allows for seamless evolution to agile virtual network services. The VSP 9000traditional ASIC architecture is limited in the emerging 40G and 100G Ethernet advances this innovation, offering layer 2that these are set at a certain point in this standards, for future services integration, and 3 VPN services and “Application VPNs”history and cannot easily adapt to future and the delivering of Converged Enhanced based on technologies that far surpass rivalchange. Typically this means that newer Ethernet support. Leveraging the fully industry offerings: including IP VPN-Lite,features and functionality are supported only programmable RSP provides the VSP 9000 Shortest Path Bridging, and Virtual Controlin hardware and require additional software with the flexibility to incorporate future Service.processing. The switching architecture of standards and protocol developmentsthe VSP 9000 is uniquely based on Network without a forklift upgrade, thus ensuring The introduction of virtualization hasProcessing Units (NPU) rather than the ASIC optimal performance and investment fundamentally changed how compute,technology typically found in rival products. protection. network and storage resources are usedNPUs are large-scale CPU arrays specifically and managed. From fixed sets of resources2

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avaya.comwithin physical constraints, we’ve now OPEX; a prime example being split-plane networking resources and personnel. Whenmoved to virtual machines that can be next-generation wireless networking, where combined with Virtual Control Service,created, moved, and removed on demand, the control plane functionality is decoupled SPBM can – for example – provideand whose resource parameters can be and re-located to the core/data center, “Application VPNs” to help ensure thatchanged dynamically. There is often a freeing-up the data path for full performance VMware VMotion virtual applications withinrequirement for virtual machines to be optimization. and between data centers are dynamicallymoved from one physical server to another and seamlessly moved or extended, withoutover disparate geographies. Additional virtualization capability will be the provisioning complexity associated with added in upcoming releases, including Avaya rival solutions. SPBM, an IEEE 802.1aqAs multi-core processing architectures IP VPN-Lite, Shortest Path Bridging, and draft standard, offers a robust, resilientand virtualization trends take hold, Virtualization Provisioning Service. alternative to today’s existing offerings andnew possibilities have emerged in how it delivers Ethernet-based services andapplications can be written. Newer, more IP VPN-Lite solutions while maintaining Ethernet’s keypowerful distributed applications are being value propositions of simplicity and cost- Avaya IP VPN-Lite is a unique, affordabledeveloped and older applications are being effectiveness. and easy-to-use alternative to MPLS IPretrofitted into the new service-oriented VPN. IP VPN-Lite allows you to deploy VPNarchitectures. An optimized network must Virtualization Provisioning Service services in the metro and campus withoutsupport the unprecedented agility of this the complexity, cost and burdensome Avaya’s Virtualization Provisioning Servicevirtualized compute environment. training requirements associated with (VPS) improves efficiency and flexibility MPLS. IP VPN-Lite runs over any flavor of when managing highly dynamic virtualVRF-Lite IP routed core network, helping ensure a machine environments across the extendedAvaya VRF-Lite allows you to use the same low-touch deployment. It utilizes IP-in-IP data center. Enhanced orchestration andhardware platform to create multiple layer encapsulation and any-to-any connectivity management tools optimize the efficiency of3 routing domains in supporting multiple with scalability that is equivalent to MPLS; VMware vCenter live migrations, facilitatingcustomers or user groups. all of the benefits of MPLS but without the more efficient real-time maintenance, notorious disadvantages. dramatically improving time-to-service,In allowing the switch to have multiple reducing errors, delivering effectiverouting instances, more sophisticated If a service provider-supplied MPLS WAN disaster recovery, and lowering total cost ofconnections are made possible and in place already exists, IP VPN-Lite can ownership.overlapping IP address spaces are be used to seamlessly extend existing VPNsupported. The system can be configured to connections into the campus or metro area.provide inter-VRF forwarding capabilities to In deploying IP VPN-Lite in this fashion, The VSP 9000 can offerallow access to common resources without there’s no need to change the WAN and noincurring additional capital or operational requirement to deploy MPLS in the campus. you:expenses. • Very high density 10 Gigabit, and 1 IP VPN-Lite offers simplified management, Gigabit, Ethernet aggregationCombining VRF-Lite with other emerging administration, troubleshooting andtechnologies can provide a seamless maintenance versus the more complex, • Future-ready platform for 40/100 Gigabitconnectivity environment for virtual users, multi-layered MPLS. It can be leveraged Ethernetconnecting from anywhere in the enterprise as a standalone, cost-effective alternative • Fully redundant hardware with no singlenetwork or branch offices without complex to MPLS or as an extension to current point-of-failureset-up or configuration. MPLS deployments, offering less complex management, training and maintenance. • Hardened carrier-class operating systemServices integration Shortest Path Bridging - MAC • Highly-available equipment-level device,The lossless fabric architecture, along with combining with native support for Avaya’sits 27Tbps switching capability and ultra- Shortest Path Bridging – MAC (SPBM) Switch Clustering architecture to deliverreliability, allows future services integration offers the ability to create a simplified an always-on network-level solutionto simplify how enterprise data centers can network layer that can dynamically virtualizebe architected. The combination of services elements of the network to fully and • Built in diagnostics such as ingress/egressintegration and virtual network services will efficiently utilize network and computing mirroring, L3 remote mirroring, packetdrive network simplicity and ultimately lower resources, thus reducing the strain on capturing, filter logging 3

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avaya.com• Hitless software patching without reload of the complete system image• Instantaneous re-route across all ports to minimize packet loss• Efficient layer 2 and 3 network virtualization services providing supports for multiple customers and user groups on the same platform• A robust, resilient alternative to today’s existing, often complex and/or compromised, offeringsWhat’s on the Chassis?The front of the VSP 9000 contains the I/Oslots, dual Control Processor modules andcooling fans; supporting ten I/O slots. Beinga compact 14RU means that one 7-foot rack Virtual Services Platform 9000 (front & rear views)can hold three VSP 9000 Chassis. Threemodule types are being offered initially:24-port 10GbE SFP+ (also capable of architecture in which the load is dynamically and investment protection for layer 2-4support 1GbE), 48-port 1GbE SFP and distributed and shared, and in the event 10Gbps line-rate capabilities without48-port 10/100/1000. of a switch fabric failure any performance requiring forklift upgrades for future constraint is gracefully managed. The standardsThere are two Control Processor modules auxiliary module slots are reserved for futureoffering 1+1 redundancy, with the control use. • Initial IPv4 forwarding rate of over oneplane decoupled from the Switching Fabric, billion packets per second, per system,leveraging a mid-plane architecture. Two allowing for more efficient data transferredundant cooling fans are provided for How can your networkside-to-side cooling for the I/O and Control • Over 100Tbps system architecture in a benefit? quad Switch Cluster configurationProcessor modules. The speed of the coolingfans is automatically adjusted depending The VSP 9000 is designed to maximize theon system temperature and fan status, with efficiency and potential of your network: Reliablesensors located on each slot to test the • Unmatched resiliency powered by Avayatemperature and manage the fan speed A future-proof platform unique Switch Clustering capability (usingaccordingly. • Very high density – 240 port of 10G split multi-link trunking and Routed Split Ethernet or 480 ports of 1G support from Multi-Link Trunking technology); HighThe rear of the chassis contains the power Availability mode engages all links when Day 1supplies, cooling fans, switch fabric forwarding traffic, resulting in industry-and auxiliary modules. There are six • Highly scalable lossless fabric leading performance and maximization ofpower supplies with N+1 and grid feed architecture supporting future 40Gbps investmentredundancy, and the power requirements are and 100Gbps interface connectivity,automatically load-shared across all installed services integration, Converged Enhanced • Instantaneous all-port re-routing results inunits. Two additional redundant cooling Ethernet and future enabling the the elimination of packet lossfans provide front-to-back cooling for the expansion of the infrastructure to alignswitch fabric and auxiliary modules. • Redundant and hot swappable control with the needs of your business processor and switch fabric modules,There are up to six switch fabric modules • Field-programmable RSP network plus redundant cooling fans and powerwith N+1 redundancy. This is a distributed processor delivers flexible data forwarding supplies, for unparalleled reliability4

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avaya.comSimple, flexible and dynamic • Key Health Indicators to provide system designed to support the needs of an evolving operators an view of system health on all virtualized compute environment.• Helps ensure an uninterrupted virtual levels: OS, system applications /protocols application transition within and between With a highly-scalable switching I/O modules, ports and the forwarding data centers (dynamic application architecture, the VSP 9000 provides path allocation of a VMware application) an efficient platform for flexible scaling • Checksum logic tests to determine if and growth to meet future network and• Multi-Terabit Switch Clustering optimizes hardware, firmware or data corruption has application requirements by quickly adapting virtual routing and forwarding capacity for occurred to business needs, without the need for a multiple customers, enabling always-on forklift upgrade in the availability-sensitive and concurrent forwarding of Layer 2-3 • Memory error-code detection and network core. Avaya offers core-to-edge traffic across all links correction network solutions that ensure design efficiency and lower operational burden. • Detailed packet statistics and counters forAchieving maximum failure debugginguptime The bottom line • The ability to remotely update flash The VSP 9000 is purpose-built to supportEnsuring uninterrupted business operations images dynamic data center and high-density 10GErequires a reliable and resilient platform • Dual flash images to assist when restoring core deployments. It alleviates infrastructurewith no single point-of-failure, and the VSP complexity and reduces power consumption9000 can deliver this. From the very outset, • Card-based Flash Memory for log capture with a truly scalable architecture; it isthe VSP 9000 was designed and developed and retrieval designed to be the high-performanceon the basis of leading-edge hardware platform for the next decade.resiliency. It provides 1+1 control plane • Common alarms and loggingredundancy, with separate management Uptime is of the essence – mission-criticalpath between the control plane and I/O, • LED indication on cards to indicate applications must be delivered 24x7,5+1 switch fabric redundancy, 5+1 power activity and system health without interruption – and the ultra-resilientsupply or grid-feed redundancy, and system VSP 9000 delivers against this challenge.cooling fan redundancy. In-service control • Process separation The VSP 9000 empowers the servicesplane integrity check, rapid detection needed today and positions networks for the This future-proof platform features unique,and recovery of data path and hardware evolving and emerging needs of tomorrow, field-proven technologies, including Switchassist are designed to protect the control and it does so with a foundation that can be Clustering and IP VPN-Lite, and an onlineplane against denial-of-service attacks and trusted. packet capture functionality for all ports.system overload, and are just some of themechanisms in place to ensure system The VSP 9000 provides for cost-effectiveavailability. Why choose Avaya and efficient upgrades to meet evolving Avaya has the ability to work within multi- network and application requirements,However, uptime maximization also requires reducing operating expenses and protecting vendor environments but can also serve assoftware that allows for easy and efficient network investments as businesses grow. your sole provider for efficient networkingmanagement of your network. The VSP Virtualization sees to that, assuring across all layers of the data center and9000 utilizes a carrier-grade Linux operating continuity, offering innovative “Application campus, core to edge. Avaya is deliveringsystem, and combines this with a complete VPNs” and layer 2-3 VPN services while carrier-grade reliability to the enterpriseset of reporting capabilities and operation- simplifying the network. The Avaya VSP network.focused features to help ensure this is 9000 is the platform for today, and theachieved with streamlined efficiency. The VSP 9000 uses unique and innovation network for business evolution. technologies to achieve both performanceReporting features include: and resiliency, and delivers these in a Learn More• A “flight recorder” style logging capability fully interoperable solution to enable to help with continuous real-time network- and system-level self-healing for To learn more about the Avaya Virtual monitoring of internal control message uninterrupted business operations. The Service Platform 9000, contact your Avaya flows powerful network virtualization technologies Account Manager, Avaya Authorized Partner used in the VSP 9000 are specifically or visit us at: www.avaya.com. 5